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How to use budding in a sentence

31 example sentences · adjective, noun

Budding means beginning to develop. Example: “He's a budding deejay.”

Examples of budding by meaning

adjectiveBeginning to develop.

  • He's a budding deejay.
  • Council's tip shops in Acacia Ridge and Geebung are treasure troves for everyone from budding home stylists to outdoor enthusiasts.2021 February 1, Living in Brisbane, Brisbane, page 7
  • What began as something loose and exploratory, from a budding musician who’s been writing songs since early adolescence, suddenly carried weight.2026 July 6, Johnathan Cohen, “Violet Grohl Finds Her Own Frequency”, in SPIN, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2026

nounThe result of this practice.

  • Whatever the mode of origin, buddings from a particular bud-parent have been found to agree in habit and general characteristics, while all buddings develop similar features which distinguish them from seedling trees.1956, Rubber Journal, volume 131, page 232

More sentences with budding

  • The budding starlet is featured in a pictorial in a glossy magazine next week.From the entry pictorial
  • A group of 80 budding mountaineers attempted Kilimanjaro, but 30 of them didn’t make it to the top.From the entry attempt
  • Seeds of dissent were budding among the recruits.From the entry bud
  • She smelled the newly budding flowers.From the entry newly
  • He used to be impatient of poems about budding flowers and zephyrous breezes.2002, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 14, in Youth, Vintage, published 2003, page 117. From the entry zephyrous
  • Calvin's younger, and blondly pretty, brother proved to be a budding backwoods aesthete.1993, Wright Morris, Writing my life: an autobiography, page 380. From the entry blondly
  • Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds.1972, John Gardner, Grendel, London, page 6. From the entry brattle
  • Trees perhaps in the foreground — just budding — spring motif and morning motif.1924, H. G. Wells, The Dream. From the entry backgroundy
  • Camps for budding chefs and web designers.2012 April 1, Susan Alexander, “Planning for kids’ summertime fun starts now”, in Sunday News Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn., →OCLC, “2012…. From the entry Angry Birder
  • Mirid populations are typically low during the vegetative phase, but can increase rapidly after budding as a result of in-crop breeding.2007, H. Brier, “7: Pulses—Summer (including Peanuts)”, in P. T. Bailey, editor, Pests of Field Crops and Pastures: Identification and…. From the entry mirid
  • We offer an overview of videographic methods that illustrates the considerable choice and diversity offered to budding videographers.2005, Richard Elliott, New Paths to Thick Descriptions, →ISBN. From the entry videographic
  • I'm in the same zone and my two hardy hibiscuses (hibisci?) are about 4 feet tall but not budding yet.2004 June 28, ~Lori, “Re: Hardy Hibiscus hasn't shown sign of life yet.”, in rec.gardens (Usenet), message-ID…. From the entry hibisci
  • This sponge reproduces by budding off hundreds of tiny individuals.2001, Julian Sprung, Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 23. From the entry bud off
  • Tempers would escalate, lines would be drawn, and this budding romance would turn into some Romeo-and-Julietesque grand passion.1998, Bernhardt, William, 1960-, Naked justice, page 56. From the entry Romeo-and-Julietesque
  • Peer pressure on both partners, even from within the lesbian community, can help to wilt a budding intergenerational romance.1982 February 6, Mary E. O'Shaughnessy, “Younger And Older Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 4. From the entry wilt
  • The objective, however, is not to help budding statisticians to statisticize but to help experimental scientists to experiment properly.1971 April 30, “Research by Experiment”, in Nature, volume 230, number 5296, →DOI, page 602. From the entry statisticize
  • Gen Z have reclaimed dark academia and have built a growing community on TikTok, alongside other budding aesthetics like cottagecore, grandmacore, goblincore and light academia.2020 April 24, Caroline Edwards, “Dark Academia is the witchy literary aesthetic sweeping TikTok”, in i-D, archived from the original on…. From the entry light academia
  • After a roughly six-hour outage, popular blogging platform Tumblr was back up Friday afternoon, bringing sweet relief to hipster bloggers, budding photographers and oversharers everywhere.2012 October 26, Doug Gross, “Rejoice, ye bloggers: Tumblr is back up”, in CNN. From the entry oversharer
  • The Town Hall residency underscores a vogue among budding artists for multinight runs at one smallish place, rather than a single large club show.2007 May 24, Melena Ryzik, “Bright Eyes in the Big City, Sporting a Prada Suit and a Hot Album”, in New York Times. From the entry multinight
  • Her real name suggested a second runner-up for a Junior Miss pageant, or maybe a budding actress whose real name is Wanda Maxine Smith.1986, Sue Grafton, C is for Corpse, St. Martin's Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 153. From the entry Maxine
  • I am also starting a folk-entourage school where you can go into gladitorial training to hang out in hip crowds with budding young folk stars.1965 December, Phil Ochs, “That Was The Year That Weren't”, in Cavalier. From the entry hip
  • Tne animal, he said, was just budding from lambhood into sheephood, and her only fault was that she could not forget her bringing up.1912 August 5, “ZOO SHEEP ACTS JUST LIKE A CAT; […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry sheephood
  • His early interest in the law and politics competed with a call to the ministry and his budding sideline as a rock-and-roll drummer, pianist and composer.2018 February 20, Adam Bernstein, “J. Clay Smith Jr., forceful EEOC leader and Howard University law dean, dies at 75”, in The Washington…. From the entry foreordained
  • As the best Japanese titles were mined, the American companies began to look for alternatives, and Tokyopop's founder Stuart Levy already had a budding interest in Korean manhwa.2008, Mark James Russell, Pop Goes Korea: Behind the Revolution in Movies, Music, and Internet Culture, Stone Bridge Press, published…. From the entry manhwa
  • Alan Ladd's wife spotted the budding beauty and suggested that Julie attend a screen test for a bit part in something called The Girl and the Gorilla.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry screen test
  • The would-bes are very sure that the managers have it in for them; just as most young writers regard publishers as being in conspiracy against budding genius.1912, Elbert Hubbard, Hollyhocks and Goldenglow. From the entry would-be
  • Music and sounds are disruptive to this author, but visual stimuli are most welcoming, with a budding hibiscus tree and surrounding potscape garden planted directly outside the home office window.2007, W. Johnson, C. Mullen, Write to the Top!: How to Become a Prolific Academic, page 152. From the entry potscape

Meaning of budding

  1. adjective Beginning to develop.
  2. noun The development of buds on a plant.
  3. noun The practice of uniting a single scion bud with rootstock or bark.

Full definition of budding

Questions about budding in a sentence

How do you use budding in a sentence?
Budding is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “He's a budding deejay.”
What is a short sentence with budding?
“He's a budding deejay.”
What does budding mean?
Budding means beginning to develop.

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